"Come what February", Pep vs Pat and Lukaku's bangers
For Our Sins: The Clichés Pod Archive
The Athletic
4.8 • 538 Ratings
🗓️ 25 January 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
The Athletic's Adam Hurrey, Charlie Eccleshare and David Walker convene the Adjudication Panel once more.
On the agenda this week: A potential world record for “fans counting out how long a goalkeeper is holding the ball”, the enduring ding-dong battle that is Pep Guardiola vs Sky's Patrick Davison, Romelu Lukaku’s implausible plant-based protein promo patter, how a team "takes the sting out of a game" and excruciating football-crossover scenes from the Australian Open tennis.
Meanwhile, the panel enjoy Paul Merson artfully mangling an old cliché and guess how much Phil Dowd's referee shirt from the 2010 Carling Cup final is going for on eBay
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic |
| 0:02.7 | I'm sorry, you can sit there and look and play with all your silly machines as much as you like. |
| 0:09.4 | Is Gas going to have a crack? |
| 0:11.1 | He is, you know. |
| 0:11.9 | Oh, he's there! |
| 0:14.6 | Brilliant! |
| 0:17.8 | He's round the goalkeeper. He's done it! |
| 0:21.7 | Absolutely incredible! |
| 0:23.7 | He launched himself six feet into the crowd, and Kung Fu kicked a supporter who was eyewit without a shadow of an out giving him lip. |
| 0:34.3 | Oh, I say, it's amazing. |
| 0:37.4 | He does it tame, and tame, it's amazing. It does it tame and tame and tame again. |
| 0:40.3 | Break up the music. |
| 0:42.5 | Charge a glass. |
| 0:44.3 | This nation is going to dance all night. |
| 0:48.2 | When your mum meets Mike Dean, Popmaster versus cliches, the final stand. |
| 0:53.6 | A potential world record for fans counting out how long a goalkeeper's holding on to the ball. |
| 0:58.0 | Jonathan Pierce lets Robot Wars back into his life. |
| 1:00.9 | The enduring ding-dong battle that is Pep G versus Pat D. |
| 1:05.3 | Stephen Gerard's elite cuisines of this world. |
| 1:07.9 | Romolulu Lukaku's implausible plant-based protein promo patter and excruciating scenes from down under. |
| 1:14.0 | Brought to your ears by The Athletic. This is football clichés. |
| 1:20.8 | Hello everyone and welcome to episode 130 of football clichés. I'm Adam Horry and with me first of all is Charlie Eccleshare. |
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